I love LOVE this design. I’ve re-created it now three times over the past decade for three different diamonds and every time it’s my favorite.
This iteration I did more of a brushed/satin finish on the leaves and upper face of the ring, but polished bright the inside and sides you see above, around the bezel leading up to the stone, and the tips of the fluttery ginkgo leaves.
18K with a hair under 1.5ct diamond.
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This amazing antique diamond needed a setting.. And since there can never be too many snake rings, it seemed like just the perfect thing. 1.95ct antique pear-cut diamond (with a crazy high-profile table & nice fat culet!) and 18K yellow gold. I LOVE how this guy turned out.
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This peacock feather wrap ring was designed for a gorgeous black opal that flashed green and fiery gold colors, plus a little honey colored diamond. 18K yellow gold
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This is a ring I carved for this sweet cabochon emerald I impulse-bought at the Tucson Gem Show a few years back. Usually, I have a list of things I’m specifically getting for current or upcoming projects, or just replacing stock I use regularly. If I bought random things, I usually bought them because they were cool (but inexpensive!); this one was an exception though, as emeralds are generally not inexpensive, and I could not resist the size 🙂
Anyway. I don’t usually have spare time to cook up cool rings for cool stones I couldn’t pass up. I LOVE how it turned out and need to do this more often.
18K yellow gold, emerald from Columbia.
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This is a custom Sweet Pea motif setting created for this gorgeous peach-colored tourmaline. I carved it very 3-dimensional, and made little windows on the sides so that you could see the pavilion below the bezel (which also allows additional light to enter the stone, making it brighter).
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Custom wedding bands with a Rose (with a little honeysuckle) and Honeysuckle (with a little rose) motifs! 18K yellow gold. These turned out so lovely! It’s hard to go wrong with these flowers.
Many more photos after the click:
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Look at that chunky crown! This is a ~1ct Peruzzi cut/Old Mine cut diamond, set in my high-profile solitaire mounting. I’d say they play well together 🙂
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This ring turned out wonderfully! Custom snake ring curled around a jelly-orange carnelian. Shoulders are carved with an Old European cut diamond-set cicada, and the Pleiades constellation with the central Maia star also an Old European cut diamond.
The base has a dogwood flower carved on the inside curling around the base to the outside. Just a little something-something. More photos after the click:
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